NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Loan Duutim arrived at his . house in Cleveland Row on Thursday. Two objects have been assigned to his Lordship's mission,—the first, to obtain the sanction of NICHOLAS to such measures of coercion as might be necessary to the settlement of the long disputes between Belgium and Holland; the second, to obtain for the Poles some mitigatiOn of their slavery, if not their restoration. to • independence. The general impression is, that in
the first of these 'objects Lord. DURH AM has been so far successful, that Russia will not interfere to prevent England and France
from compelling the evacuation of Belgium by the Dutch troops, or, in other words, from giving effeet to the repeated resolutions of the Conference; and that in respect of the second, he has only
succeeded, ki far -that, as matter of • grace and favour, some more
merciful treatment maybe dealt to -Poland than it has hitherto experieneed. We repeat the reports of the day in these state- ments. What Lord DURHAM sought, and what he obtained, we shall not clearly know until Parliament meet, if we are permitted
to knew if then. . A,Cabinet Council. was-held on Thursday, subsequent to Lord DURHAM'S arrival,—for the purpose, we presume,- of enabling him to submit to his colleagues the information he had procured, and'. the conclusions he had come to. Earl GREY has a sea of difficul- ties before him; but we trust,7-and from his past success, we haye.giOnn4for Our trust,—that he will oi)_its.highest and most threatening wave. Ireland is extremely unsettled, though not so much so as-the hellowing-of CYCON,NELL would persuade -us. The
people of that country are not tobe most-feared when they make thejnest mdse. The;Colonies reqpire .attention. Mauritius has cast off'its allegiance to the.King, and Jamaica to the law.; but neither is the bluster of a few thousand men in the East or the West an object of deep or serious apprehension.
In Portugal, Ministers have an object that more requires their cares. If Pink, -suceeed,' then all will be well ; but if Pkimtb
fail, welear that the People of England, if not the Government, haViembarked.too'deeply in the struggle to retire with honour and ease. :Perhalis, after all the guesses at Lord DURHAM'S mission', it had reference to the South as much as the North of Europe.;,1e.iiat lall..times:difficult to draw the line where the neutialitY of surrounding states - in reipect of.such a contest. as that now waging between PEDRO and Mtuum. should cease. There is one rule, however, Which seems abundantly clear, either interference ought not to be attempted at all, or it should go:this:high. If Ministers were to send an expedition to Oporto,
and compel. the. abdication of MIGUEL and the establishment of his niece's power, they would doubtless, give deadly .offence to thDit, eneinies -they-permit- Don.. PEDRO to be worsted and Nitootz. 4o succeed,- and, as a necessary consequence, the English intereStSili Porta-tat:to'. be Sacrificed, they will go. far to forfeit the affection and supped of their friends.
